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Your word-hoard should serve your experience, not the reverse.

— Brian Bates The Way of the Wyrd : Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer (1983)

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Wyrd existed before the Gods and will exist after them. Yet wyrd lasts only for an instant, because it is the constant creation of the forces.

The Way of the Wyrd : Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer (1983)

Nothing may happen without wyrd, for it is present in everything, but wyrd does not make things happen. Wyrd is created at every instant, and so wyrd is the happening.

The Way of the Wyrd : Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer (1983)

Wyrd is the unfolding of our personal destiny. It has sometimes been translated into modern English as "fate." But it is much deeper than that. It does not see our lives as "pre-determined."

All our lives are locked together in the shimmering world of wyrd in which all things are enmeshed and connected to one another by the threads of wyrd.

The Way of the Wyrd : Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer (1983)

The pattern of life is not woven ahead of time, like cloth to be worn later as a tunic. Rather, life is woven at the very instant you live it.

The Way of the Wyrd : Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer (1983)

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